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HSST - SOCIOLOGY
KERALA HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION - KHSE
PSC Exam held on : 29-02-2016
Kerala PSC Previous Year Fully Solved Question Paper | Year - 2016
Part - 2 | Questions : 21-40
21] Who defined society as web of social relations ?
[a] Max Weber
[b] MacIver
[c] Hobbes
[d] Spencer
22] Who among the following does not belong to German School of Sociology ?
[a] Simmel
[b] Max Weber
[c] Herbert Spencer
[d] Tonnies
23] A community is based on
[a] Common Habits
[b] Common Ideology
[c] Common Thinking
[d] Common Territory
24] The concept of Social Distance is associated with
[a] Bogardus
[b] Emile Durkheim
[c] Sumner
[d] Karl Pearson
25] The "Savage Mind" was written by
[a] F. Tonnies
[b] J. S. Mill
[c] Levi Strauss
[d] E. B. Taylor
26] An organization deliberately formed for collective pursuit of some interest, which its members share is called
[a] Institution
[b] Association
[c] Community
[d] Society
27] The borrowing of cultural elements from another society is known as
[a] Cultural lag
[b] Acculturation
[c] Cultural Invention
[d] Cultural Diffusion
28] The division of labour is the basis of ___________ System of stratification.
[a] Varna System
[b] Caste System
[c] Class System
[d] Clan System
29] Social stratification means
[a] Classification of society into caste
[b] Classification based on class
[c] Classification based on power
[d] Classification of society into groups and in-groups
30] Who wrote 'The Social System' ?
[a] R. K. Merton
[b] Talcott Parson
[c] Karl Marx
[d] Max Weber
31] "Ethnocentrism" has been coined by
[a] G. H. Mead
[b] Lewis Coser
[c] W. N. Sumner
[d] Edmund Husserl
32] A Black Byzantium : Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria was written by
[a] S. F. Nadel
[b] Levi Strauss
[c] Jeffry Alexander
[d] Durkheim
33] The concept life world is introduced by
[a] Harold Grafinkel
[b] Alfred Schutz
[c] Edmund Husserl
[d] Berger
34] Attributes refers to
[a] Quality of phenomena
[b] Quantity of the phenomena
[c] Representativeness
[d] All of these
35] Who introduced the term 'Cyberspace' ?
[a] Gilbert
[b] William Gibson
[c] William More
[d] Willman
36] The book "Asylums" was written by
[a] George Homans
[b] Peter Blau
[c] C. H. Cooley
[d] Ervin Goffman
37] The word 'Varna' means
[a] Colour
[b] Cloth
[c] Caste
[d] Clan
38] The term 'Status Group' was introduced by
[a] Durkheim
[b] Karl Marx
[c] Max Weber
[d] Robert Merton
39] The term Symbolic Interactionalism was coined by
[a] G. H. Mead
[b] Peter M. Blau
[c] Ervin Goffman
[d] Herbert Blumer
40] The Idea of 'Public Sphere' was introduced by
[a] Karl Marx
[b] J. Habermas
[c] Max Weber
[d] Durkheim
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